Any combination of text, animated graphics, video, and sound delivered to you by computer or other electronic means.

A collection of various media that comes together to form a single unit. (MULTImedia) Information that can be represented through a variety of media.

CONVERGENCE

What is it?
Technology
The

overlapping of multiple types of media into single multimedia devices.

Fields

of Study

Computer

Science areas are overlapping. HCI, Graphics Visualization, Compression, Networking, Database Systems, etc.

Areas of Topics and Projects

Three Main Areas

Multimedia processing and coding
Content analysis, security, audio/image/video processing, compression, etc.

Multimedia system support and networking

Network protocols, operating systems, servers and clients, quality of service, databases, etc.

Multimedia tools, end systems, and applications

Hypermedia systems, UI, authoring systems, etc.

Multimedia
Interactive multimedia The end user controls what is delivered when. NON-linear

Hypermedia A computer-based information retrieval system that enables a user to gain or provide access to texts, audio and video recordings, photographs, and computer graphics related to a particular subject.

Languages

HTML/XHTML XML SMIL

Similar to XHTML Seq Elements are displayed sequentially Par Elements are displayed in parallel Excl Only one of the grouped elements can be presented at a time; order does not matter

 Categories Music Sequencing and Notation

Cakewalk, Cubase, Macromedia Sound Edit, etc

Digital Audio
Cool Edit, Sound Forge, Pro Tools, etc

Graphics and Image Editing

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks, etc

Video Editing
Adobe Premiere, Windows Movie Maker, iMovie, etc

Animation
3D Studio Max, Maya, etc

Multimedia Authoring
Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Director, etc